Means for tiltably supporting tubs



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HENRY M. VAUGHAN, 0F NEWTON, IOWA.

MEANS FOR TILTABLY SUPPORTING TUBS.

Application filed June 13, 1922. Serial No. 568,085.

To all whom it concern:

Be it known that I, HENRY M. VAUGHAN, a citizen of the United States ofAmerica, and a resident of Newton, Jasper County, Iowa, have inventedcertain new and useful Improvements in Means for Tiltably SupportingTubs, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in tilting-devices, and' the objectof my improvement is to furnish an auxiliary means for supporting a tub,a washing-machine, or any container in. a tilted position in order toeasily and quickly drain off the contents thereof by any suitabledrain-cock thereof when desired.

This object I have attained by the means which are hereinafter describedand claimed and which are illustrated in the accompanying drawings, itbeing understood that various slight modifications thereof arenevertheless covered by the protection of this invention.

In the drawings, Fig. 1 and 2 respectively show a tub in a horizontaland a tilted position, with my auxiliary tilting-device mounted on asupport thereof respectively in a retracted and in an operativeprotracted position. Fig. 3 is an enlarged detail view of a preferredconstruction of the tilting-device as pivotally mounted on a tub leg,the full lines showing the device as retracted, and the dotted linesshowing it in a protracted or extended position. Fig. 4 is anotherdetail view of the device in a modified form. Fig. 5 is yet anothermodification thereof,

and Fig. 6 is another modification thereof.

Similar numerals of reference denote corresponding parts throughout theseveral views.

An ordinary tub, barrel or other large container filled with a liquid ishard to support in a tilted position to drain off the contents by way ofa drainage opening or cook, and this inconvenience is increased when inaddition to the weight of the container and its contents is added, as ina mechanically-operated washing-machine the mechanism and heavy motorthereon.

I have therefore contrived and supplied a device which is easily andinstantly adjusted from an inoperative retracted position to a positionof extension relative to the tub or washing-machine to coact with thefixed legs or supports thereof to tilt the tub and to securely hold itin a suitably tilted position to drain the tub at such an angle to thehorizontaltli-at the impetus of the escaping contents will sweep out allsediment therewith. The user will thus avoid all of the strain incidentto muscul'arly holding the tub in its tilted position, so injurious topersons of frail physique.

I have shown an open top tub 5 supported in elevated relation to asupporting surface or floor on its fixed legs 4 in the usual manner,said tub being provided at one side of its bottom with a drain-cock 6.This tub may be of any size, shape, or form part of a washing-machine,while the container may be such as is suitable to contain any flowablecontents, such as a barrel, firkin, tank or otherwise which may beshifted bodily to tilt it in order to discharge its contents.

My improved auxiliary tilting means in its simplest embodiment isdisplayed in said Fig. 6, wherein an angle bracket 12 is secured by abolt 3 or other means to a fixed leg 4 such as is provided as astave-leg for a tub 5. An auxiliary leg 8 is pivoted at 7 at its upperend to said bracket, the latter being spaced above the lower end of theleg 4. The bracket-plate 2 is terminally extended beyond the leg 4, sothat when the leg 4 is first lifted and the other leg 8 swung in onedirection, this leg 8 will be stopped by the projection of thebracket-plate to hold the leg 4 as so raised and thus retain the tub 5in a tilted position at an angle suitable for thorough drainage of itscontents. When the tub has been thus emptied, it may be slightly lifted,and the leg 8 swung upwardly to the raised position shown by the dottedlines past its center of gravity toward the leg 4, where it is held bygravity while the tub is in a horizontal position.

In my preferred construction of the de vice as shown in Figs. 1 and 2,an arm 12 is terminally pivoted on the same pintle 7 as the leg 8 andcarries at its free end a weight. 1.3, which is wholly or partiallybuilt up of plates 14 held in position by the adj ustingscrew 15,whereby the weight may be increased or decreased by the addition orsubtraction of a plate or plates 14 as desired.

The arm 12 is limited in its opposite swinging movements over the leg 8by engaging raised stop parts 9 on the leg, or by any equivalent means,such as is illustratively shown in said Fig. 4, wherein the arm 12 isterminally forked at 17 so that the inner edges of the forks may in turnengage a stop-pin in the intermediate part ofthe leg 8 shown at 16.Theleg 8 itself has its scope of opposite 'movements limited preferablyby removable pins bracket 1.

It will be seen that the weighted, armv 12-43 serveswhen swung past itsdead center to tensionally'yieldingly hold the leg 8 in either itsretracted or in its protracted or extendedposition as the case maybe, as

indicated by the full lines and bythe dotted lines respectively in saidFig. 3. The leg is thus kept from accidental displacements and is alwaysin its extreme position either way.

7 In Fig 5 is shown a mechanically equivalent device for exerting ayielding tension upon the leg 8, and consists of a coiled spring 18connected adjustably between a fixed pin 20 on the bracket 1 and eitherof the longitudinally-alined row of fixed pins 19 on the leg 8. Thespring likewise serves to yieldingly retain the leg in either extremeposi- '10 in holes 11 in the r "Patent','is:

Having described my invention, what I claim as new, anddesire to secureby Letters 1..Atiltjing device for tubs andthe like,

comprising a fined" leg on the tub having a bracket, an aux liary leghaving at one end a'pivotal connection to the bracket, means forlimlting outward movement oft'h'e auxthe tub, in which latterpositionflit is entirely out of the way oi' the operator.

40 I iliary leg,:an arm pivoted atone end on said pivotal connectionfaweight mounted on said arm, and means for-limiting the scope ofmovementof said arm.

A-tilting device for tubs and the like, comprising a fixed leg on thetub havinga bracket, an auxiliary leg having at one end a pivotalconnectionto said bracket, means for limiting outward movement of theauxiliary leg, an arm pivoted at one end 011 said'1)]VOlJaLCODILQClLlOH, means for limiting the scope of movement of saidarm in either of opposite directions, and a weightmounted V on the freeextremity of said arm andmade up of a plurality of separably connectedparts. I

Signed at'Newton, Iowa,this 3 day of June, 1922.,

- HENRY MVAUGHAN.

